What 🍐 means
Possibly single and open to dating. In 2023, the company Pear and some customers used 🍐 in social profiles to signal that. Read the rest of the profile before assuming romance: food photos support the literal reading.
Neutral and lightly playful in food messages.
A pear in a bio does not prove someone is single.
Don't confuse it with
2Combination ideas
2Suggestion: illustrate “gone pear-shaped”—things went wrong.
Suggestion: a pear-and-cheese board.
Worth knowing
- The characters behind 🍐 existed in Unicode 5 years before anyone was allowed to draw them in colour: Unicode 6.0 in 2010, emoji presentation in 2015.
- 🍐 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.
Questions people ask
1Why does 🍐 look different on other phones?
Every platform draws its own artwork for the same code point. The character you send is identical; Apple, Google, Samsung and WhatsApp each render it in their own style.
How to type 🍐
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “pear”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “pear”.
Chat apps
:pear:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🍐Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🍐
HTML hex
🍐
CSS content
content: "\1F350";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%8D%90
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.